Manatee
All its age enfleshed
In deep-lined wisdom
Swims only enough
A round eye of black
Takes in everything
Takes you, takes me
Through a green liquid
Medium into inner
Space
Where energy abounds
And what the elder
Dreams
Flashes to merge with
Synaptic feelings
Action transduced into
Creation’s lightning
Welled in obsidian
Eye of the prototype
Mer-person for
A new world
Promise to Tame and Wild
The manatee, the tapir,
And the platypus are
Abducted
The black-and-white
Ursus of China cannot
Find bamboo to eat
And the smaller one
Inhabiting wild Australia
Needs eucalyptus more
And more from us
What are we doing?
We make captive that
Which impulsively is
Unaware of borders
Save maybe the divine
We slew the passenger
Birds that only send
Messages now as
Phantoms (I’ve seen
The statue)
We tame, we kill—a
Time for everything
The brave dog who
Saved the children of
Nome (I’ve seen that
Statue, too)
How about time for
Leaving what’s created
Not by us in better
Care, surrendering
Our Eden-promise, if
Need be,
Rather to leave alone
What we cannot care
For with respect for
Great and small
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